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Name: Enrico Spolaore
Title: Professor of Economics
Departmental Affiliation: Economics Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Harvard University, A.M. Harvard University, Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) University of Siena, Laurea (B.A.) University of Rome, "La Sapienza"
Expertise: Political Economy
E-mail: enrico.spolaore@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/econ/faculty_staff/pfspolaore.html
Scholarship & Research: Enrico Spolaore is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University. His research interests are political economy, international economics, and economic growth. His publications include articles in academic journals (American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and others), chapters in edited volumes (Handbook of Economic Growth, Oxford Handbook of Political Economy), and the book The Size of Nations, co-authored with Alberto Alesina (MIT Press). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and by the European Union's Human Capital and Mobility program. He has served as a consultant for the European Commission and for the Confederation of Italian Industries. He is a Research Fellow at the Ente Luigi Einaudi (Rome) and CESIfo (Munich). Spolaore joined the Tufts faculty in September 2004. He previously held the Kutayba Alghanim junior chair in Political Economy at Brown University. He holds a B.A. (Laurea) in Economics from the University of Rome, a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Siena, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he received an NSF-sponsored doctoral fellowship from the Harvard-MIT Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy.

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